My Life as a Courgette – Review
If Short Term 12 had been a co-production between Henry Selick and Tim Burton, it might well have ended up as something close to My Life as a Courgette, a simple but sincere stop motion feature that tests the...
How One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Mastered the Art of Adaptation
Adaptations: they're never as good as the book. Lord of the Rings purists would mostly agree, and though Ang Lee and Emma Thompson did an Oscar-winning number on Sense and Sensibility, there's no way any of...
Where Are They Now? The Millennium’s One-Hit Wonders
One quirk of every awards season are the filmmakers who enjoy a shining moment of glory, full of the promise of cinematic brilliance to come, only to fade away into obscurity. Out of sheer curiosity, we’ve...
The 89th Academy Awards – 2017 – Results!
In possibly the most sensational conclusion in Oscar history, Moonlight has won Best Picture! Not before the producers of La La Land had gone on stage, and actually held the Oscar for Best Picture. This all...
ORWAV’s Oscars Predictions 2017
Here it is, folks: the night we spend all year preparing for. The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards represent a wonderful mix of styles, voices and perspectives, which is exactly what a good film awards...
Team Talk – Moonlight
With 8 Oscar nominations under its belt, Moonlight has quickly become a real competitor against the likes of La La Land. Offering a look at the complexities of modern day masculinity in situations of high...
Is It Time For The Academy To Move Beyond Oscar Bait?
Biopics, historical dramas, films about Hollywood, war films. The key phrase continually thrown around by the masses that connects these genres is the demeaning qualifier “Oscar bait” – should the film...
Fences – Review
A great play has a certain kind of self-made intensity, as if its players are conjuring up a story from thin air and keeping that plate spinning around the single stage. It leaves you dizzy. Directing...
O.J.: Made in America – Review
Between black and white are over 500 shades of grey. This is the argument of Ezra Edelman’s exhaustive cinematic thesis on O.J. Simpson; a comprehensive documentary that shows that in order to understand...
Choosing Life: Optimism In The Films Of Danny Boyle
T2 Trainspotting is a gritty drama dealing with the harshness of middle-age in a left-behind society. Its characters must deal with past sins, including betrayal, aggravated assault, self-loathing and drug...
Team Talk – La La Land
Winning a record 7 Golden Globes this year, La La Land is seemingly unstoppable. Adored by critics, lapped up by the public, it can seemingly do no wrong this golden child of 2017. Our Kambole saw this all...
The Birth of a Nation is Bad and It Should Feel Bad
I was talking, late last week, to a friend who works at the Independent about the impending release on these shores of Nate Parker's once-heralded The Birth of a Nation. As our general displeasure with the...
13 Things We Know About The 2017 Oscar Race
OK, so there are more than 13 things we know about the 2017 Oscar race. We know, for instance, all the usual givens such as the 0% chance of Captain America: Civil War being nominated for Best Picture, or...
Beyond #OscarsSoWhite: The Academy’s Revolution
It’s not all about Michael B. Jordan and the Wayans brothers. It is, but it isn’t. African Americans are not the only 2016 invitees cutting an impressive swathe through the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...
Removing the Whitewash: A New Academy?
On June 29th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made one of the biggest changes in its history, inviting nearly 700 new members in an attempt to diversify a membership that was increasingly...